Assignment Part 1: Verbal Communication Step 1. Write a letter to a person that has wronged you and upload it to Canvas (thinking about our coverage of Verbal Communication). In the letter, outline...

Assignment

Part 1: Verbal Communication

Step 1. Write a letter to a person that has wronged you and upload it to Canvas (thinking about our coverage of Verbal Communication).In the letter,outline the details of the grievance. Be sure to includewhat core values they violated (from Core Values content in week 3) and what it was about the action or communication that impacted you so deeply(this likely relates to your core values/beliefs, life experiences, cultural influences, communication channels, or past experiences).This might be something the person did to you, or something that the person did to someone close to you.
This letter must be turned in.

Important note: This is your letter. As always, you get to pick who you write about, how big of a grievance you write about, and the language you need to use to get your thoughts/feelings out on the page. Profanity is totally acceptable! This letter will not be shared, nor will I comment on its contents.

Step 2. Type or write out in big red letters "FORGIVEN" on the letter.

Step 3.Now, you may eitherburn the letter like in the video or tear it up into small piecesand throw it into the trash.

Part 2: Conflict & Forgiveness

Write a2page reflectiondiscussing:

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      Conflict. Whatconflict approach have you been using in this situation and how do you think it has been working(you must refer to theconflict styles in Ch. 11)?
   
   
   2. 
      Thoughts impact emotions, which impact actions. What were youthinking as youdraftedthe letter?What mixedemotions were you feeling as youdraftedthe letter(Here is the PDF with the list of emotions:
      Increasing Your Emotion Vocabulary.pdf
      
      Actions)?
      
   
   
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      Nonverbals. Read your letter out loud andwrite down some of your nonverbals as you read it. Write about what happened withyour body language, paralanguage and facial expressionsand include in your analysisgestures, adaptors, illustrators, and haptics (from Ch. 6).
   
   
   4. 
      Thoughts impact emotions, which impact actions. What you werethinking and what mixed emotions were you feeling as youwrote the word "Forgiven"(Here is the PDF with the list of emotions:
      
      
      
      Increasing Your Emotion Vocabulary.pdf
      
      Actions)?
      
   
   
   5. 
      Thoughts impact emotions, which impact actions. What you werethinking and what mixed emotions were you feeling as youdestroyedit (Here is the PDF with the list of emotions:
      
      Increasing Your Emotion Vocabulary.pdf
      
      Actions)?
      
   
   
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      Reframing. How would yourperception of this situation have to change in order for you to start to move away from the emotions to looking at this intellectually(youmust refer to the terminology on perception from Ch. 3and the reading on Forgiveness:Forgiveness.PDF
      
      Actions)?
   
   
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      Resistance. Whatmightget in the way of you actually forgiving this person?You mustrefer to your core values, the concepts from Ch. 8 (Forgiveness.PDF
      
      Actions) ANDyour HFS forgiveness scores from this week's terminology journal!
      
   
   
   8. 
      Channel.If you were todecide to actually talk to this person about this, what channel of communication would you use, and why?
      
   
   
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      Benefits. Whatbenefits would you gain by letting this go?
      
      
      
      
   
   
   10. 
       Rumination.Thinking back to theEmotional First Aid discussion (week 7),how might you apply what he says aboutrumination to this situation?
       
   
   
   11. 
       Pass along your knowledge.
       How mightyou help others on their path to forgiveness?